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简介：A maid opened the door leading from a bedroom to a salon of the royal suite at Harridge's Hotel. Dusk had fallen, and entering, she switched on the electricity. The room, with its almost Louis Seize d...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：1283 作者： Arthur Conan Doyle阿瑟·柯南·道尔
简介：The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell. Peat-cutters on Blackdown and fishers upon the Exe heard the distant throbbing rising ...
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简介：What is slavery? A system under which the time and toil of one person are compulsorily the property of another. The power of life and death, and the privilege of using the lash in the master, are not ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：452 作者： 未知
简介：When the news came of the discovery of gold at the south pole, nobody suspected that the beginning had been reached of a new era in the worlds history. The newsboys cried Extra! as they had done a tho...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：737 作者： 未知
简介：Charles John Huffham Dickens, the master story-teller, was born in Landport, England, February 7, 1812. His father was a clerk in one of the offices of the Navy, and he was one of eight children....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：609 作者： 未知
简介：From time to time the door opened to admit some tardy person. Then the May sunlight without flooded the dim, long hall with a sudden radiance, even to the arched recess in the rear, where the coffin w...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：355 作者： 未知
简介：From the foundation of the monastery by Peada, a.d. 655, to its destruction by fire in the reign of Henry the First;embracing a period of 461 years....
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简介：It was with feelings of doubt that were not very far from dismay that Beatrice Deems watched her new acquaintance, Dan OLeary, saddle her recently acquired horse. She had ridden before, of course, in ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：547 作者： 未知
简介：What if he is a great deal older than I am! that doesn't give him any right to rumple my hair, does it? I'm willing to respect old age, of course, but I want my hair respected too....
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简介：The person who invented the Irish question may or may not deserve well of his species. In a sense, of course, there has been an Irish question since the beginning of history. But it is only within the...
